Leeds is almost in Scotland, isn't it?

[expat]

The Conservatives were last night accused of "snubbing" Scotland after unveiling an ambitious plan to create a multi-billion pound high-speed rail link from London ... to Leeds.
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However, David Cameron insisted the Tory plan was a "first step" and that he wanted more high-speed rail links to bring "our country closer together".

The Conservative leader told the BBC he wanted to "make sure it is easier to get from London to Edinburgh, London to Glasgow and travel faster and fly a bit less".
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However, any fast link to Scotland is unlikely to materialise before 2040.

That will be too late to bring "our country closer together".

Both David Mundell, the Shadow Scottish Secretary, and Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Conservative leader, denied the high-speed London-to-Leeds rail plan was a snub to Scotland, describing it as a "very encouraging" plan. "By getting it to Leeds, it opens up as a realistic possibility of it coming to Scotland," insisted Mr Mundell.

We invented the thing, now we should be pleased to have "a realistic possibility of it coming to Scotland"?

Those Tories do make me laugh

[swamp]

I've never been to Leeds, but I'm sure it's very near Scotland. They can get a bus the rest of the way.

[Moscow Mule]

I've never been to Leeds, but I'm sure it's very near Scotland. They can get a bus the rest of the way.

walk

[Diver]

I've never been to Leeds, but I'm sure it's very near Scotland. They can get a bus the rest of the way.

Didn't the Scots throw it over the wall last time they had a cleanup?

Don't see why they can't just hire a skip like everyone else

[rootsnall]

The plan to get shut of them ( and make them think it was their choice ) is well under way. Why waste money on the Leeds to Scotland bit

[expat]

The plan to get shut of them ( and make them think it was their choice ) is well under way. Why waste money on the Leeds to Scotland bit

At least Cameron didn't promise trains to Glasgow and Edinburgh, as Thatcher did with Eurostar, and then renegue.

[BrilloPad]

Not sure I know this Leeds place. Is it North of Watford?

[Bob Dalek]

That it isn't London to <a Scottish City> is, I suggest, because the powers that be have, rightly, concluded that there's no point to doing it.

[TheBigYinJames]

That it isn't London to <a Scottish City> is, I suggest, because the powers that be have, rightly, concluded that there's no point to doing it.

There's no point having a London to anywhere rail link, since Londoners don't believe in anywhere else apart from London.

[Bob Dalek]

There's no point having a London to anywhere rail link, since Londoners don't believe in anywhere else apart from London.

Fair enough! Also, why provide transport to ginger, prismatically pale & translucent shiftless folk with appalling teeth, who won't use it anyway because they can't smoke or play pool for the duration of the journey?